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the demand to attack, the bill to pay, and the spark in your phone — all daring you forward
means To charge is to rush forward in attack, to demand a price or accuse someone formally, or to fill something with energy or electricity.
from From Latin 'carrus,' a wheeled wagon — the same root that gives us 'car' and 'cargo.' Late Latin 'carricare' meant 'to load a wagon,' and that sense of loading is the secret thread tying everything together. Through Old French 'chargier,' the word arrived in English still meaning 'to load' — and from loading came every branch: load a weapon and fire (the attack), load a debt onto someone (the bill), load energy into a battery (the spark). A burden, a duty, a 'person in your charge' — all things laid upon you. One Roman cart, still hauling meanings across the centuries.
- electric origin
- named from Latin for loading a wagon
- cavalry roar
- the bugle call literally meant ride at them
- smallest unit
- electron charge measured to absurd decimal precision
- courtroom weight
- a charge can rewrite an entire life
- physics rule
- total charge can never be created or destroyed
charge at little bighorn — george armstrong custer's 7th cavalry attacked lakota/cheyenne village, june 1876, montana